Pete Sessions

It's beginning to seem like the longest running off-Broadway show, the Republican effort to end the Obama presidency prematurely. The latest act was staged the other day before the House Rules Committee.

Members were considering House Speaker John Boehner's proposal that the House of Representatives sue Mr. Obama for failing to do his job in fully implementing the Affordable Care Act, which the Grand Old Party has been trying to kill off ever since Congress enacted it in 2010.

Their party having failed to make good on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's vow to make Barack Obama a one-term president, some Republicans have been beating the drums for impeachment, a step...

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